London Still Rocks!

Tonight, I was thinking of The Last Viking , which I'd intended to see on the 12th , but didn't - it's a crime comedy with Mads Mikkelson , who plays a man under the delusion that he's John Lennon . Evening showing was in the Ritzy . Ah, but the big release of the summer is, arguably, The Odyssey , just released, and which I'd have seen at the weekend, had I had the time. The story of the epic poem , it's directed, written, and co-produced, by Christopher Nolan , and for the cast, it looks like they went through the Hollywood phone book and played eeny-meeny-miny-mo.. there's: Matt Damon as Odysseus , King of Ithaca , who spends 10 years fighting the Trojan War , and then gets.. delayed on the way home, spending another 10 years getting there, and giving his name to the trip. I have a vague memory that this was a curse on him after he annoyed some god or other, but can't find anything about it now. Anne Hathaway as his long-suffering wife, Penelope , ...

Yesterday  - well gee, there was another highly rated horror! Actually, the  London Horror Film Group  saw this last week - the film in question was  Baghead , and the "baghead" is some kind of supernatural being who can put you in contact with the dead. Wears a bag over her head, and when you take it off, she has taken on the appearance of the person you're talking to. Just like last year's  Talk to Me , however, there's a time limit - with strict penalties for overstepping. (They give you a whole two minutes in this one - in Talk to Me, it was 90 seconds..) Sadly, since I first looked, its rating plummeted - oh well, it was booked. Apparently, the  director  says he has derived a lot of his inspiration from  Guillermo del Toro  - reason enough to see it, in my book. Closest to me showing it is the  Odeon Tottenham Court Road , which was once my local - and as always with the Odeon, it's cheaper to book, so I did. And handily, that was ...